If we become very skilled at mindfulness and meditation,
Do our other actions and circumstances matter anymore?
Can mindfulness allow us to overcome any emotional obstacles?
As an example,
We run into several difficulties while trying to harvest grains,
For example.
Either we use chemicals or we go through GMO process in order to create strains or species of grains that are very resistant to bugs,
For example.
So say we came up with this incredible GMO strain that's very resistant to different types of bugs and doesn't need chemical fertilizer.
So say somebody came up and publicized the fact that he came up with this strain of this type of grain that's resistant and can thrive anywhere.
However,
Somebody comes along and asks,
Well,
You think it can thrive anywhere,
Then will it thrive inside water?
Will it thrive without soil?
Will it thrive hanging in the air?
Or will it thrive if you just put it on top of rock?
So these are kind of outlier exceptions.
So these don't really make sense.
But what the inventor says is he actually came up with a resistant strain that can thrive if you harvest it or plant it normally.
So even if you come up with this incredibly good resistant strain of some kind of grain,
You still need to nurture it.
You still need to plant it in the soil.
That's the minimum amount of external circumstances you have to provide.
And if supposedly there's a person that has attained complete freedom regardless of the circumstances,
However,
Does that mean that he's free from the external circumstances when it involves knifing him or starving him to death or stopping his breathing or burning him alive,
For example?
So these are absolutes.
When you frame the question so that allow us from any emotional obstacles or external circumstances,
That any is an absolute that I can't speak to for sure.
But what I can confirm to you is that all the little difficulties we face in normal everyday life,
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